Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 May 1939 — Page 2

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REQUEST LEGAL DATA ON WATER PURCHASE STEP

Utilities District Trustees Wait Replies to Questions Asked at Conference.

Indianapolis Water Co. attorneys today were to give Utilities District trustees “certain legal data” pertaining to the purchase procedure of the company. The data was requested by Will H. Thompson, Utilities District attorney, during a meeting of the Mayor's Committee of Seven which is investigating the proposed purchase. The Geist estate has offered to sell the utility to the City for $22,825,000 Mayor Sullivan, who was spokesman for the group, told reporters that Mr. Thompson had asked

“several questions which couldn't

be answered” during the meeting. It was then decided to ask company attorneys for the data.

Doors Are Closed

The Committee met with Judson Dickerman, Federal Trade Commission utilities expert, and C. W. McNear, Chicago investment broker, who is negotiating the sale of the company for the Geist estate. The group met behind closed doors in the Mavor’s office for two and a half hours. Reporters were not admitted. Mavor Sullivan said Mr. McNear explained his “side of the story” directlv to Mr. Dickerman, who is making an independent survey of the company for the City. Mr. Dickerman, who began his work Monday, was “borrowed” from the Federal Trade Commission

Calls Discussion General

‘After Mr. McNear told Mr. Dickerman what he already had told us,” the Mayor said ‘Mr. Dickerman

asked some questions about the com- |

pany.

“Then there was a lot of discus- |

sion and Mr. McNear left. We then discussed the matter among ourselves. Mr. Thompson also asked some questions, but some of these couldn't be answered ‘We then thought it would be a good idea to have some legal data from the company. Outside of that, the discussion was very general.”

STATE K. OF C. LEADERS MEET

2-Day Ft. Wayne Convention Will Be Preceded by Dinner Tonight.

Times Special FT. WAYNE, May 27.—Delegates from 64 Indiana councils arrived here today for the two-day annual state convention of the Knights of Columbus opening tomorrow Registration was to be held at noon at the XK. of C. home and tonight’s activities are to include a dinner meeting followed by a reception and dance Tomorrow a pontifical high mass will be celebrated at the cathedral at which the Most Rev. John F. Nell, bishop of the Diocese of Ft. Wayne, will be the celebrant. The sermon is to be preached by the Rev. Fr. James W. Moore, state chaplain.

Speakers at the convention ban- | quet tomorrow night at the center | T.|

include Supreme Director Ray Miller, Cleveland; State Deputy Gilbert E. Powell, New Albany, and O D. Dorsey, Indiana master of the fourth degree Supreme Director Timothy P. Galvin, Hammond, will be toastmaster Monday's program includes the election of officers, committee reports, selection of a 1940 convention city and consideration of plans for the maintenance the Gibault Home for Boys at Terre Haute. Present State officers are Father Moore, Cambridge City, state chaplain: Mr. Powell; George M. Kinzel, Gary, secretary; George Redelman, Greensburg, treasurer; Henry Hasley, ¥t. Wayne, advocate, and John E. Murphy, Rensselaer, warden

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TOLL IS LOWER, STIVER REPORTS

Under First 4 Months Of 1938 Listed.

fic deaths in Indiana during first four months of this year as compared to the same period in 1938, was reported today by Donald F. Stiver, State Safety Director, | During April the State's traffic| death toll was 46 compared to 73 | a year ago, a drop of 37 per cent. | During the first four months of this | year, 249 persons were killed in state | traffic compared to 297 in the same |

first four months of 1937. A majority of the fatalities oc- | curred in rural areas, the report] showed. Of the 249 deaths this year, | 163 of them were in the rural areas. | More persons were killed in passen- | ger cars than any other classification of traffic with 74 fatalities. Pedestrian fatalities, which led the list last year, dropped to second place |

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KING AND QUEEN REST IN ROCKIES

They'll East Buffalo Tonight; Americans Will Join in Vancouver Fete.

| i BANFF, Alberta, May 27 (U. P). —King George and Queen Elizabeth relaxed today in this resort town high in the Rockies. It was the first opport had had since they Quebec 10 days ago, and they prepared to make the most of it. Formal evening gowns and uniforms were discarded for comfortable tweeds and tailored suits.

WASHINGTON, May 27 (U. P.).—Secretary of the Navy Claude A. Swanson has been asked to furnish 200 Marines to guard King George VI and Queen Elizabeth when they meet members of the Senate and House of Representatives during their visit to Washington.

|walk during the morning along trails near their hotel and marveled at the grand®ur of the rugged scenery. They were to have their first taste of buffalo steak tonight Tomorrow morning they resume their journey to Vancouver, British Columbia, which they will reach Monday Meanwhile the province of British Columbia assumed a distinct Amerjcan tinge as thousands of persons from below the border poured in.

HOOSIER DROWNS WHILE SWIMMING

BLOOMFIELD, May 27 (U. P).— Clarence Winkie, 43, of Bloomfield, drowned late yesterday while swimming in White River northeast of here. He was working on a timber cutting project and other workers said they saw him go down but were unable to rescue him.

ROCKVILLE, May 27 Robert Whitesell, 21, of Metcalfe, Ill, drowned late yesterday while swimming at the Turkey Run State Park near here. His body was recovered immediately but resuscitation attempts were futile. He was attending a picnic sponsored by | Metcalfe High School.

Hoosiers 1n By DANIEL

TW TASHINGTON May 27.—Not a single one of the seven

Republican Congressmen from

Indiana showed up at the full day of cross-examination of their state treasurer, Felix McWhirter, before the House Committee Investigating un-American Activities Their only comment, was to praise the fine showing made by Chairman John D. M. Hamjlton of the Republican National Committee, who, they believed exonerated himself rom anv connection with anti-Semitic activities and condemned such conduct In no uncertain terms Lee Nixon, a Hoosier connected with the G. O. P. headquaiters staff here, and Harmon E. Snoke of the United States Chamber of Commerce staff heard Mr. MecWhirter testify Mr Snoke formerly was with the Indianapolis <Chamber of Commerce and was sponsored by Mr. McWhirter for the rational organization job Mr. McWhirter has served several terms as director of the National Chamber and is vice president of the committee which sends out secret reports on allegedly “subversive activities.”

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Rep. Eugene B. Crowe (D. Ind.) has received approximately 50 replies to his follow-up letter in the MecNutt-for-President campaign which was addressed to all of his Democratic colleagues in the House. While most of the letters are cautiously worded, all indicate an interest and desire to talk about

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| the McNutt campaign plans. | Every Congressman who has had personal contact with the ‘ormer Indiana Governor expressed admiration for his ability, even while withholding present indorsement of his availability.

According to the National Debt Week figures of the Republican | National Committee, Indiana's share of the national debt is now $1,081,186 5987.10, This was computed for the Congressional Record by Dudley A. White (R. O.) on the basis of a per capita debt of $311.22

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NATIONAL MORGENTHAU testifies on compromise tax plan (Page One.)

MEAD BILL may get momentum

MONOPOLY Committee expert quits as inquiry is delayed. THIRD TERM talk becomes more frequent among visitors. REP. FISH charges Hull holds “secret conclaves.”

By CHARLES T. LUCEY

Times Special Writer

AFFAIRS

from TNEC investigation,

WASHINGTON, May 27.—Evidence developed by the Temporary

legislation empowering t bank loans for private business. Senator Mead (D. N. Y.), sponsor of such a bill, said today he believed the Committee's small ness study, ending yesterday stituted a convincing case for the

| measure.

Some of the examples of inability

[of small concerns to get financing | —and so to expand plants, buy

| equipment and employ men—will be resubmitted in hearings on the Mead bill to begin before the Senate Banking and Currency Committee Wednesday

Senator Wagner (D. N. Y.), com-

he favors the bill, and Senator Mead hopes for an early report. He believes the fact that the measure sets up no new agency may avert any lengthy controversy.

Million Would Be Limit

The measure, understood to have Administration backing, would permit the RFC to insure 90 per cent lof loans made by banks to in|dividuals for business enterprise Loans insured would be limited to $1,000,000, would run from one to 10 years, and could have an interest rate exceeding 4 per cent only by special permission of the RFC | An insurance premium of onefourth of 1 per cent to 1 per cent on unpaid balances of loans would

be authorized Neither Senator O'Mahoney (D. Wyo.), TNEC chairman, nor Jesse Jones, RFC chairman, who may be important witnesses in the coming hearings, has indicated their attitude on the Mead bill.

Funds Reported Tight Others associated with the small business study, however, indicated a belief that while the Mead bill is not sufficiently fundamental to pro-

vide any final answer to the prob- |

lem, it weuld remedy some of the business ailments that have been emphasized at the TNEC hearing. Witnesses from widely scattered sections have testified that in some instances small business has had to turn to loan sharks to get financing, and that in many communities new capiial was unavailable even for enterprises clearly making a profit. A member of the Committee's staff testified yesterday on the basis of an extensive survey, in which he talked to both bankers and small | businessmen in many cities and towns, that if small business could get needed capital “from one-fourth to one-third of the unemployment lead” could be lifted.

his efforts there on behalf of |

Jewish refugees Both Mr. McNutt and Mr. Coy aided President Manuel Quezon | in carrying out the refugee aid program in the islands. Upon leaving Manila, Mr. and Mrs. Coy were presented a silver service > w» %

Rep. John W. Boehne Jr. (D. Ind.) delivered the best wisecrack of the week when he reported that a Republican Congressman said: “I think Tl just resort to demagogy and vote against the Townsend Plan.”

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WON'T RESIGN YET

WASHINGTON, May U. P) —Joseph Kelly said today that he has withdrawn “for the moment” his resignation as special counsel for the Securities and Exchange Commission in charge of the Temporary National Economic Committee's study of investment banking. Mr. Kelly resigned yesterday after it was announced that hearings on investment banking would be postponed indefinitely. “1 withdraw my resignation at the request of the committee, which assured me that hearings would go on in the near future,” Mr. Kelly said. “I came down here about a month ago at a pretty high per diem salary to do the job and 1 found myself sitting around with nothing to do. I got fed up with

that and decided it would be best

for me to go back to private practice. However, I have received assurances that this thing will go on and I think it will.”

‘Secret Conclaves’ With Hull Denied

WASHINGTON. May U. P) —Rep. Sol Bloom (D. N. Y), acting chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, denied today that recent meetings of his group with Secretary of State Hull were “secret and mysterious conclaves.” | He admitted that “informal conferences” with Hull have been held by several members of the committee in Secretary Hull’s hotel apartment suite. One lasting about two hours was held yesterday. | Rep. Bloom said there was no bar | to any member of the committee | attending the conference if he were] willing to subscribe to executive session rules and not discuss the conversations outside. | Rep. Hamilton Fisk (R. N. Y) and Rep. George H. Tinkham (R Mass.), both bitter critics of the Ad-

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minis‘ration’s foreign policy, have Meira Vasconcellos said last night | meetings, Rep. in a speech in honor of Gen. George | appointed U. S.|

not attended the Bloom said, but insisted “it was not because they were not invited.” Rep. Fish in a radio address last | night charged: “We have recently

had far too much secret diplomacy |ous alertness because they conflict | “NN N\ with the fundamentals of our po-|

in our foreign affairs.” He said that Secretary Hull “deliberately refused | the unanimous request” of the committee to give the Administration's view to the committee on proposed

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RFC Guarantee of Loans F,D.R. 30 TERM To Small Business Urged CHORUS SWELLS

Ex-Governors and Preacher Trek to White House And Promise Aid.

HYDE PARK, N. Y., May 27 (U P.) —President Roosevelt has received in the past fortnight or two from diverse political figures a series

of expressions urging that he run

for a third term. Todav as he returned to his Hudson Valley estate for a few days relaxation there was no indication of his reaction to these expressions. But political watchers were pondering the series of apparently unrelated third term expressions with considerable interest. The interest has been by the diversity of the individuals making the comments. They have ranged from Elder Michaux, Negro

evangelical leader, to former Demo- |

cratic Governors in the Midwest and Mavor Edward T. Kelly of Chicago cago White House Silent Whether all the White House visitors who have given boosts 10 a Roosevelt third term candidacy in statements to White House newsmen have delivered similar expressions to Mr. Roosevelt is not known. Some have called on other business and made the third term comments merely in passing. The White House itself has maintained silence as regards the future political course of the President Not even his closest friends and relatives have ventured even Aa speculative opinion The most outspoken individuals who have surveyed the political picture with the President, it was recalled. have been Mayor Kelly and former Governor William Sweet of Colorado Pledges Tlinois Mavor Kelly expressed belief that Tllinois, should Mr. Roosevelt desire to run for a third term, would be for him Former Governor David Sholtz of Florida dropped into the White House pressroom yesterday for a brief chat. He declared unequivocably for Mr. Roosevelt should be desire to run again, asserting that in his travels about the country he had observed no diminishing in the sentiment of the rank and file for the President.

U. S., BRAZIL ALLIED IN AIN, RIO HEARS

RIO DE JANEIRO, May 27 (U P.) —All American nations must

mobilize their strength in behalf of |

continental security because of interference of foreign nations in American republic affairs, Gen

C. Marshall, newly Army chief of staff ‘Due to policies of certain nations we must maintain continu-

litical and social organization,” Gen. Vasconcellos said, Brazil and the United States, Gen. Vasconcellos said, were moral allies with the same political mind.

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Seventy-seven motorists were | ordered to appear in Municipal] Court while police investigated 22 | overnight traffic accidents in which | three persons were hurt. Herbert Endicott, 57, of 1401 Hoyt | Ave, faced two charges. Police said | his car struck one parked on Shelby | St. 1100 block and then another] |one parked on Laurel St, 1100 block. | Patrolmen in a cruiser caught him at Orange and Spruce Sts. He was | charged with driving under the in-| | Huence of liquor and failure to stop | at a preferential street. Arthur J. Richardson, of 1527| Bates St., was charged with failure | to have a driver's license after his car allegedly crashed into a Broad Ripple streetcar on College Ave. near 44th St. The airbrake on the car was broken and streetcar traffic was blocked. Helen Mann, 18, of 1516 W. 22d | St. was taken to City Hospital after the car in which she was riding struck a traffic sign at 30th St. and Northwestern Ave. Police charged [the driver, George R. Roberts, of

11724 Rembrandt St. with failure t0 ported, resulted from an increase in |——— [the number of Indianapolis homes heated with gas from 332 a year ago |

have a driver's license.

JUDGE SEEKS TO BAR GRAND JURY NOTES

NEW YORK, May 27 (U. P)— | Testimony given before a grand jury in an abortion case may be read today at the trial of Kings County Judge George W. Martin who dismissed the case, allegedly for a $1000 bribe, If read, in spite of Martin's impassioned protest, the testimony will be a high point in one of two trials here in which judges are being tried on bribery charges. Martin T. Manton, resigned senior judge of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, is being tried in Federal district court on charges of having taken $186,000 in bribes from litigants before his court. As a reluctant witness against Martin yesterday, William Lurie, a lawyer who defended Dr. Louis I. Duke of abortion charges, said that he gave the judge $1000 and that [the judge granted his motion to dismiss the indictment. Lurie said Martin had asked for the money as a “loan” and that he had got it from the doctor, but that there had been no arrangement to “fix” the indictment Supreme Court Justice Francis D. McCurn said he would rule today on whether to admit the abortion testimony.

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Times Photo. Fabian Biemer, chief deputy County Auditor for eight years, today was appointed as County Auditor to serve until Jan. 1, 1940. Mr. Biemer succeeds Mrs. Florence E. Grossart who died Wednesday. Mrs, Grossart was filling out the unexpired term of her husband, Charles A. Grossart, who died Nov. 6, 1638

GAS SALES HERE CLIMB IN APRIL

Consumption by Industry Increases 35 Per Cent, Report Declares.

Gas consumption in. April was substantially higher than for the same month a year ago, the Citizens Gas & Coke Utility reported today. Featuring the report was a 35 per cent increase in industrial gas consumption, which totaled 75300, 000 cubic feet. House heating gas consumption was 26,700,000 cubic feet in April, a gain of 161 per cent over a year ago. The consumption gain, it was re-

to 734 last month. Commercial gas sales, cubic feet, showed an increase of 2.200.000 feet, while domestic consumption totaled feet, a gain of two million.

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PROTEST ROAD SPECIFICATIONS

Indiana Operators Charge Discrimination Against Their Product.

Too much chert in the gravel take en from Indiana pits is causing ane other row over highway materials, Chert is a substance in gravel that State Highway Department engi= neers contend will cause defective road pavements T. A, Dicus, Highway Commission sald engineers recently put in concrete road specifications a clause that will prohibit the use of gravel having a chert content of more than 5 per cent. Pit Owners Protest Gravel pit owners criticized the Commission for what they termed discrimination against their gravel, “We are not necessarily rejecting Indiana gravel but are trving to control materials that go into State roads to insure better highways in the future,” Mr. Dicus said “Engineers claim that the chert material will pop out of the pave= ment in freezing and thawing weather. Many of the chipped out holes in pavements were attributed [to the use of chert.’ | Besiege Commission A delegation of gravel dealers be sieged the Commission several days this week, demanding changes in specifications “It's just a revival of the old bat[tle between gravel men and crushed [stone dealers,” Mr. Dicus said. “This job of trying to run a highway department is nothing short of a nightmare. If it isn't a row over gravel and stone it's a quarrel over the use of ‘black top’ in preference to concrete. Nobody ever is satise fied with anything.” Indiana built more miles of bitus= minous “black top” highways than any other state last year, according to figures published by the American Association of State Officials at Washington. Records show that 1391 miles of the low cost roads were constructed [in Indiana in 1938. The only other state with comparable “black top” mileage was Kansas with 1054 miles, the publication stated. Third highest | was 850 miles in West Virginia.

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